DISASTER: Beyoncé’s 4 Bombs!
As predicted, Beyonce’s album, 4, has bombed spectacularly. The projected first week sales figures are in — and they are not good.
Beyonce will be #1 next week, but 4 will sell only 273K, her lowest 1st week sales since her debut album, Dangerously in Love, was released back in 2003. I’m still trying to get my confidential source on the phone to tell me what the mood is at Sony/Columbia records. I’ll let you know what he says.From Hitsdailydouble.com:
Fresh off her triumph on closing night at Glastonbury, Columbia diva Beyonce’s 4 will debut at #1 next week on the HITS album chart with between 275-300k in first-week sales. Her previous album, ‘08’s multiple Grammy winning I Am… Sasha Fierce, debuted with 463k, but that was during the Q4 sales rush in November.
Those figures are based on one-day sales from those music retailers around the country not augmenting their income by selling illegal fireworks out of the back door.
SoCal rapper Big Sean’s Finally Famous: The Album, his feature-length debut after a series of critically acclaimed “Finally Famous” mixtapes, is the first release under Kanye West’s new deal for his G.O.O.D. Music label, through Island Def Jam Music Group, and should do in the 90-95 range.
Fetal Genital Development
A Twitter user posted this tweet on Twitter.com earlier today:Knowing that EVERY penis started out as a vagina should help u to better understand why some men are such bitches
I saw this as a teachable moment: clearly some people aren’t aware that all embryos have the same female genitalia until about the 8-12 weeks of gestation. This is why the sex of a baby can’t be determined by ultrasound until after the sex organs are formed.Here are male and female 9 week old embryos. Can you tell which is which? Click here to see the answer.
Is Alicia Keys Pregnant Again?
It sure looks like it. Keys, 30, and her hubby were spotted arriving at the Bowery to meet her fans and sign autographs yesterday. The couple have one son together. An 8-month-old boy named Egypt
Celebs Out & ABout: Dwyane Wade, Gabriel Union, Rihanna
Friends Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade were pictured at the ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Premiere in Times Square in NYC yesterday. After walking the red carpet, the two went their separate ways. It’s good to see ex-lovers remain friends, isn’t it?
R&B singer Rihanna gripped her butt cheek during her performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles yesterday. My spies tell me that the real reason singer Cee-Lo dropped out of the LOUD tour is because he thinks he’s a bigger star than Rihanna is, and he resented opening for her. Speaking of Rihanna, she is tapped to host the Grand Opening of the new Vision, now called Reign. The occasion is also owner Alex Gidewon’s 40th birthday party.
What She Said: Kelly Rowland
It’s a sure bet that Bey won’t ask her 1.3 million followers on Twitter — to go cop Kelly’s album, Here I Am, when it drops on July 26, because Bey is too good to tweet like common folk.
